Shi News – Academic Items
1.Call for papers for 2023 BRISMES Conference ‘Ecology, Crisis and Power in the Middle East’
The deadline for the call for ‘Ecology, Crisis, and Power in the Middle East’ is 7 December 2022.
The event will be held in person at the University of Exeter on 3-5 July 2023.
For a full exploration of the theme please read here: https://www.brismes.ac.uk/conference
And
https://www.brismes.ac.uk/conference/call-for-papers
2. UCLA’s Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World
Video Library Announcement: The World of Ancient Iran and the West Panel II Now Available
We are pleased to share with you the recorded lectures from the first panel of the conference, The World of Ancient Iran and the West, “Achaemenid Persia and the West II,” hosted at UCLA on May 19, 2022.
The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World and the J. Paul Getty Museum convened an international symposium on the exchanges between ancient Iran and the Classical world. Held at UCLA over two days (May 19 and 20, 2022), it marked the launch of the exhibit, Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, at the Getty Villa in the spring of 2022. The symposium included invited speakers, UC faculty, and Getty scholars, whose research pertains to the nexus between ancient Persia and the West. The overarching themes covered by the symposium were: Achaemenid Persia and the West; Iran and the Hellenistic World; and Eastern and Western Entanglements in the Post-Hellenistic and Late Antique Periods.
https://pourdavoud.ucla.edu/videos/
3. Perspectives on Early Islam, Dec 9 at 11:00am, EST
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4. Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Translation (with Arabic)
Queen’s University Belfast
The School of Arts, English and Languages is currently seeking to appoint an exceptional candidate to the post of Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Translation (with Arabic). The successful applicant will undertake research in line with the School’s research strategy, to teach primarily at postgraduate level, to undertake doctoral research supervision (where appropriate), and to contribute to School management, administration and outreach.
Deadline | 12 December 2022
5. World Cultures Curator (Arabic and Persian)
University of Edinburgh
We are looking for a curator to oversee the curatorial management and understanding of the University’s collections that have come from the Islamicate world and South East Asia, researching into their provenance and contexts including languages. The postholder will work with archivists, librarians, curators to improve finding aids and contextual information about holdings. It will also develop relationships with academic and local communities to disseminate research findings, scope out work required for further understanding these collections and lay foundations for future activity.
Deadline | 16 December 2022
6. Call for Applications – Visiting Fellowship
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
The Bodleian Libraries are now accepting applications for Visiting Fellowships to be taken up during academic year 2023-24. Fellowships support periods of research in the Special Collections of the Bodleian Libraries, across a range of different subjects including the Bahari Visiting Fellowships in the Persian Arts of the Book.
Deadline | 2 December 2022
7. Call for papers – “Once again – Where are the women?”: Economic sanctions through the lens of gender, race, sexuality, and class
Workshop | University of Warwick | Spring 2023
This workshop aims to bring together feminist, queer, and post/decolonial scholars working on sanctioned countries to discuss various ways in which economic sanctions work through and reproduce the gendered, racialised, classed, and sexualized relations of power within and among nation-states.
Deadline | 15 December 2022
8. Call for Contributions – Decolonising Knowledge and Practice
Journal | Gender & Development
This issue of Gender & Development will examine the colonial and patriarchal power dynamics that undergird our knowledge and research institutions, publishing realm, development policy and practice and our everyday lives. We invite research articles, shorter practice-based essays as well as critical and innovative methodologies in the ‘global South’ and ‘North’ which could include photo-essays, illustrations, short audio and video submissions, as well as poetry and stories that offer a feminist decolonial/post-colonial analysis of these institutions and practices and propose creative solutions or ways ahead to tackle institutionalised colonialism, casteism, racism and patriarchy in knowledge production, dissemination and practice.
Deadline | 15 January 2023
More information
9. A Political Theory of Muslim Democracy
Book Talk | 1 December 2022, 17:30 | The Alwaleed Centre, University of Edinburgh
In this special public lecture, Dr Ravza Altuntaş-Çakır will provide an overview of her monograph A Political Theory of Muslim Democracy (Edinburgh University Press) which offers a conceptualisation of Muslim democracy based on pluralist principles.
10. Networks of Trade, Mocha to Asia
| Online Talk | 12 December, 18:00 | British Yemeni Society
In this talk Dr Um will reflect on the Yemeni port city of Mocha and its history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, drawing on the research that she conducted for her book, The Merchant Houses of Mocha: Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean Port (University of Washington Press, 2009). She will also share new findings and interpretations that have emerged since its publication. |
11. Patriarchal Hierarchy: Market Capitalism and Production in Afghanistan
Book Talk | 10 January, 18:00 | Institute of Middle Eastern Studies
The book is the product of Dr Rafi’s nearly four years of research which analyses extensive empirical data gathered in the field during a year in Afghanistan in 2018. The book’s theoretical contribution takes aim at the methodological foundations of market-led economic policy. This approach to economic development has been advocated by international financial institutions since the 1970s-80s, and was implemented in Afghanistan as part of the state institution (re-)building during 2001–2021.
12. CfP: The Journal of Religious Minorities under Muslim Rule provides a primary venue for scholarly studies that examine religious minorities (such as Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, Hindus, and other minoritarian Muslim groups) under majoritarian Muslim rule. The journal covers a large temporal period, spanning from 7th century Arabia to 1922 (the end of Ottoman rule), in addition to a large geographic area from North Africa and al-Andalus in the West to Iran, some Central Asian lands, well into Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Indonesia in the East. The focus includes minority-minority, minority-majority, and minority-state relations. In addition to its broad temporal and geographic reach, this is an interdisciplinary journal which will appeal to those working in specific disciplines, including history, religious studies, literature, legal studies, and archaeology.
https://brill.com/view/journals/rmmr/rmmr-overview.xml
13. ATINER’s 2023 Mediterranean Studies Conference in Athens Greece
I would like to bring to your attention the organization of the 16th Annual International Conference on Mediterranean Studies, 3-6 April 2023, Athens, Greece. You are more than welcome to submit a proposal for presentation by 5 December 2022. As we did last year, we will accept both remote (online or pre-recorded) and onsite presentations. If you need more information, please let me know, and our administration will send it to you including the conference website and abstract submission form.
My best regards,
Nick
Dr Nicholas Pappas
14. A treasure saved and to be explored: The Mohamed Tahar Library in Timbuktu, Mali. Monday Majlis with Martin Nixon, the 5th of December. 17:00-18:30 (UK time)
Martin Nixon
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0ocOirqDMvHdfsKHkG6aAJkE2lSIEUx9Pb
15. Gender and Number Agreement in Arabic
Simone Bettega and Luca D’Anna
Brill, 2022
https://brill.com/display/title/63560
16. The American University in Cairo
Assistant, Associate or Full Professor of Middle East History
Close: Dec 2, 2022
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=64636
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